U.S. policy toward Middle East still failing

5:42 PM,
Sep. 7, 2013

Written by

Richard Scamehorn

This is the second column in a two-part series about Egypt and the Middle East.

Our failed strategies will haunt us for decades.

In the 1970s, we gave the Shah of Iran F-4 Phantom jet fighters. When Saddam Hussein started a war against Iran in the 1980s, the Soviets backed Iran (and they have since), so we backed Hussein, supplying him with the same fighters. ...